Guess there are awesome Malls around the world.....beauty is in the eye of the beholder....and thats the thread here ! Larger and more impressive malls are underconstruction everywhere plus further extension and refurbishment of existing Malls.....Here in Melbourne, Australia, Chadstone continues to amaze me with its expansion and architecture...but its all international architecture..could be in any city of the world...so my choice for the most beautiful......'Galleria' Milan Italy....beautiful !!!!!!!

To qualify how BEAUTIFUL a mall is,is kind of a subjective appreciation.But if we speak in terms of size,well thats different.
let me show you a few pictures of CITY MALL in San Pedro Sula,Honduras:
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Its a small one,compared to those in North America,Europe and Asia.Is my favorite in Honduras.

Guess there are awesome Malls around the world.....beauty is in the eye of the beholder....and thats the thread here ! Larger and more impressive malls are underconstruction everywhere plus further extension and refurbishment of existing Malls.....Here in Melbourne, Australia, Chadstone continues to amaze me with its expansion and architecture...but its all international architecture..could be in any city of the world...so my choice for the most beautiful......'Galleria' Milan Italy....beautiful !!!!!!!

Yeah, I agree Galleria in Milan is magnificent. There's hundreds of other huge malls around but there's basically all the same blah

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Langham Place in Hong Kong is rather interesting, not the biggest or most beautiful but has an interesting thing going on anyway...

This is my favorite mall in Hong Kong. I personally think it's quite beautiful and very original for it's design.

To explain... there's a small underground part of a few levels with a traditional underground mall feel. But then as shown in the last picture, there's a huge lobby that looks all the way to the top (about 11 stories). You can either take the escalator that goes all the way to the top which features a number of theme restaurants and a fake 'night sky' ceiling or you can walk up. If you walk, the walkway curves around the edges of the building (the stores actually line the edge, the walkway is towards the center, but there is a significant space in the middle to look all the way down to the lobby from) and slowly goes up as it whirls around the building. In this way there are no stairs exactly, and if you just walk, you will eventually go from the bottom to the restaurants at the top. Pretty innovative design for a mall with a relatively small footprint.

European Malls usually are much more better than the Malls in USA... Take an example. Look at the Horton Plaza In Downtown San Diego:the design its too kitsh and trash...Compare it with The Mall Athens in Greece: too elegant, classy and outstanding!!!

I think americans just don't care if malls are beautiful or not, as long as they have good stores and are functional that's all that matters...

I think americans just don't care if malls are beautiful or not, as long as they have good stores and are functional that's all that matters...

Most Americans don't want them beautiful, they want them kitschy and tacky with obscene amounts of parking. Entire cities in America are built with these concepts in mind. (Las Vegas is probably the best example.)

Most Americans don't want them beautiful, they want them kitschy and tacky with obscene amounts of parking. Entire cities in America are built with these concepts in mind. (Las Vegas is probably the best example.)

huh? that totally doesn't make sense at all.

But I have to admit, compared to these malls, the malls around my area are garbage.